Although I cannot contribute in any respect due to a lack of necessaryskills I would like to express my support: Nico is absolutely right;this needs to be addressed. Are there any plans for a general test suite for testing themes? That would be a great improvement because it would give one theopportunity to check whether a certain theme is working as it should.Together with a history it would make the decision in favour (oragainst) of a certain theme much easier.
Kai On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:43, Nico Zanferrari <nicoz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Moin to all, this is a CALL FOR ACTION! > > - the problem: Moin actually has a really old fashioned design. > Looking at it, you could think you're still living in the Ronald > Reagan era. "Gone with the wind" seems much cooler than the official > theme and the corresponding web site. > > - the need: we absolutely need a good designer and UI architect who > will be able to take us in the post-Obama era. The new 2.0 version > should be a revolution, not only for the code but also for the eyes! > > - the risk: we've learned from the past that making a new theme is > quite easy. But having a fully supported one, with high quality and > committed developers for the near future is not so simple. > > > So, a great addition to the Moin team would be some artistic/design > person who feels passionate about moin, and about creating and > maintaining a good theme. If you think you could help, please apply > within! > > > ********************************************************************** > > Apart from the propaganda and jokes, I wrote a 'desperate' mail on > this subject to Thomas Waldmann. He replied and suggested to forward > his ideas here. This is the relevant part of his original mail: > > [...] > > For moin2 (which is the "in development" version and the place where new > stuff should happen), we also search for someone caring about this > stuff. While it has increasingly high power inside, it still looks very > raw and misses UI design at many places. > > I'ld like to have 1 or 2 themes there: something looking similar to 1.9 > modernized (just for continuity) and some sidebar theme, maybe looking > similar to mediawiki (not 1:1 but somehow similar). > > I don't want to have more builtin themes, see maintenance problem > described above and also I think it is important to concentrate on a few > quality themes than having a big quantity of "80% finished themes". > > That 80% thing was one of the problems I was seeing with many 1.9 themes > btw. - themes that looked great at first glance, but lacked support for > important functionality. Or for scalability, or for RTL, or ... > > Cheers, > > Thomas > > [...] > > > Have a great moin2, > Nico > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > Moin-user mailing list > Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Moin-user mailing list Moin-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/moin-user
